Flood-fence



(No Model.)

A. Z. SIMS: FLOODFENCE.

Patented Mar. 1, 1887.r

, 15a/WMU?" n Stans AINER Z. SIMS, OF UNION CITY, TENNESSEE, ASSIGNOE OF ONE-HALF rIO VILLIAM A. TILLMAN, OF GRAPE VINE, TEXAS.

Hoon-FENCE;

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 358,491, dated March 1, 1887.

Application filed August l', 1886. Serial No. 210,287. (No model.)

T 0 @ZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, Annan Z. Suus, a citizen of the United States, residing at Union City, in the county of Obion and State of Tennessee, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Flood-Fences; andI do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, which will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to {iced-fences, the object of the invention being to provide a fence of this character which will automatically drop in case of high Water, thereby preventing the fence from being injured or broken away. A further object of the invention is to provide a Hood-fence which shall be simple in its construction, cheap to manufacture,and strong and durable.

With the above and other objects in view the invention consists in the improved construction and combinations of parts7 hereinafter fully described, and pointed out in the claims.

In the drawings, Figure l is a perspective view. Fig. 2 is a detail sectional View showing the manner of hanging the fence. Fig. 3 is a detail View showing the manner of suspending the supporting posts or standards, and Fig. 4 is a detail view of a modification.

Corresponding parts in the several figures are denoted by the same letters ot' reference.

Referring to the drawings, A represents the fence, the sections B 13 of which consist of end posts,c,connected by wooden panels b; or said posts may be connected by wires, or may be part wire and part panels, as may be desired, the top wire preferably barbed.

In the lower ends of the fence-posts are secured L-shaped rods C, which L-shaped rods are adapted to engage holes or openings c in short base-posts D, driven in the ground and projecting slightly above the latter.

In some cases it may be desirable to extend the base-posts to about half the height of the fence, and in this case the base-posts are provided with notches d, located at any suitable point, either on the side or upper edge, and the fence-sections have secured to them staples or loops @,adapted to be engaged by arod or bar, f, which also engages the notch in the base-post and holds the i'encelsections in an upright position.

E represents supporting standards, which are pivotally connected with the upper or top panel of the fence-sections and extend therefrom on each side of the fence. The preferable means for pivotally securing the standards in place consist in passing wires through openings in the top rails and bending said wires to form eyes or loops g, which are adapted to receive loops or staples It on the said standards. A

F represents short metallic spikes, which are located in the lower ends of the supportingstandards, and which are adapted to enter the ground.

G represents paddles, which are secured near the lower ends of the standards E, and which, when struckL by the water, force the spikes in the lower ends of the standards from the ground and allow the fence to drop on the ground, so that it will not be damaged by the ilood.

It will be understood that when the fence before described is to be used as a flood-fence the bar f is removed and the sections supported entirely by the standards E, said locking-bars only being employed when it is desired to make the fence permanent.

The fence before described is not only simple in its construction, but is cheap to manufacture and strong and durable.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim isl. The combination, with the pivoted fenceseetions, of supportingstandards pivoted at their upper ends to said sections and provided at their lower ends witlipaddles, and with the spikes projecting from the en ds and adaptedto engage the ground, substantially as set forth.

2. The combination, with the posts having the notches, of the pivoted fence-sections having eyes or staples, and a bar engaging said staples and passing through the notches, as set forth.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses. Y

ABNER Z. SIMS.

Witnesses:

W. T. Gniesnr, H. E. JoNns. 

